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   From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   kathy.doyle@btconnect.com wrote:   
   > This year and last year there has been a large number of what look   
   > like Agaricus Campestris, field mushrooms in some local fields.   
   > However all the guides I have checked describe them as growing in   
   > pasture or lawn, but these are all in fields where oilseed rape has   
   > been grown and now harvested, and they appear amongst the remains of   
   > the crop. They grow only where the crop was, and not in the grassy   
   > verges around the fields.   
   > can anyone tell me whether this is usual? The farm is a conventional,   
   > ie non organic one, and I am amazed that whatever they are they can   
   > survive the spraying etc. I have harvested parasols etc, in other   
   > areas locally, but I will not be eating any of these as despite being   
   > told that they are field mushrooms I am not fully convinced about.   
      
   I was picking bagfuls of A. campestris from a vineyard where fungicides   
   and herbicides are regularly sprayed.  The chocolate-brown gills and   
   spore print of Agaricus are distinctive.  The pesticides gave me some   
   pause, but I couldn't resist the bounty growing at my feet.  The   
   mushrooms were delicious sauteed in butter and sprinkled with salt.   
      
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